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Sammy Alito (when the president in his crosshairs was a Democrat): “The President has vital power in the field of foreign affairs, so does Congress, and the President does not have the authority to override [] laws[.]”

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Straight up, Abrego Garcia is the modern American Dreyfus Affair.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

In Biden v. Texas, SCOTUS ruled 5-4 (Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, & Barrett dissenting) in a narrow, statute-specific decision that Joe Biden had authority to rescind Trump1.0’s “Remain In Mexico” program Here’s Alito’s dissent rejecting the “foreign affairs is exclusive to the president” argument:

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

So, uh, Chief Justice Roberts: is organizing an international anti-constitutional conspiracy to arbitrarily & summarily deprive individuals of basic liberty an “official act”?

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Straight up, Abrego Garcia is the modern American Dreyfus Affair.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Just 46 days ago the Trump2.0 Administration strong-armed Romania into flying Andrew Tate & Tristan Tate to Florida, despite active criminal process & extradition orders against the Tates in Romania and the United Kingdom for human trafficking & sexual assault, for which there is ample evidence

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

The Trump-Bukele conspiracy isn’t just tyrannical flouting of due process outlined in the US constitution, it’s tyrannical flouting of legal principles laid down in the Magna Carta or even in Roman Law, a direct attack on the most basic foundations of what “law” is

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I just can’t help but get the sneaking feeling that Peter Thiel’s company is promoting Keith Mussolini and Derek Hitler to executive positions for reasons other than merit

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

This is precisely why today’s Republicans worship Orbánist Hungary, despite it being a tiny economic backwater with a per-capita GDP less than half of the lowest-ranked US state, and from which ~10% of the population, including ~43% of all medical doctors, has emigrated in the last 20 years

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There are innumerable examples “if normies heard how the law really works, they wouldn’t believe you,” and habeas is a prime example “A writ from the 12th century that challenges the *fact of detention* and therefore only issues against the person doing the detaining, who can be hard to identify” 🤪

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In the Boasberg Alien Enemies Act case, Trump2.0 got SCOTUS to say only remedy is individual habeas petitions Now they say habeas isn’t available The maze of procedural games is all Catch-22 bullshit that *a child could see is intended to thwart due process and impose capricious police-state rule*

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Stephen Miller is the exact embodiment of the ur-archvillain of mid-20th-century anti-Soviet intelligentsia imagination—the purely ideological politburo hack who could disappear anyone to the Transpolyarnaya without a second thought He’s a monster whom conservatives loved Solzhenitsyn for exposing

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Mike Davis clerked for Neil Gorsuch in 2017 The fascist rot runs deep into load-bearing institutions

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”do I have a deal for you! 3 for $5, or possibly $50!”

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perspective: New Yorker frozen in 1952 and just woke up:

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